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Tracey Emin Will Bring Valentines to Times Square

by Corinna Kirsch on January 29, 2013

Beginning this Friday, February 1st, Times Square will bask in a new type of radiant, neon glory. Tracey Emin, hot off the heels of her appointment as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), will now bring digital versions of her “love neons” to Times Square throughout the entire month of February.

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NADA Moves to Basketball City

by Corinna Kirsch on January 17, 2013

The New Art Dealers Alliance will host its second-ever art fair in New York at Basketball City. Neither a basketball nor a city, the venue is a “giant sports hangar” located on Pier 36 on the Lower East Side.

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The Outsider Art Fair Gets a Makeover

by Corinna Kirsch on January 16, 2013

“It’s singular. It’s the only one,” Andrew Edlin told me about the Outsider Art Fair. Edlin’s been running the twenty-year-old art fair since his newly formed company Wide Open Arts purchased it back in August. It opens in the former Dia building, now Center 548, over the weekend of January 31st, and according to Edlin we’ll see some deep changes.

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27th Street Galleries Reopen, with Fanfare

by Corinna Kirsch on January 14, 2013

On Saturday afternoon, the strip of galleries between the Hudson waterfront and 11th Avenue finally reopened with a block-wide opening reception. Those galleries have been closed since Hurricane Sandy hit in October. With months of repairs behind them, the galleries along 27th Street seem happy to sweep away those recent memories.

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David Bowie Collaborates with Tony Oursler on New Single

by Paddy Johnson on January 8, 2013

Tony Oursler’s still making his creepy video-face heads, and they’ve escaped their art fair home. Now he’s worked to made the music video for David Bowie’s new single “Where Are We Now?” , in which Bowie’s already perfectly satisfying head is put on one of Oursler’s dolls.

The news here isn’t Bowie’s questionable taste in collaborators, though; it’s that David Bowie has returned from a ten year absence and will release a new studio album on March 12th. To make the news extra press friendly, he’s released this news on his 66th birthday. This single isn’t making us overly excited about the news, but thanks to his previous body of work—30 albums in total, including, hello, Ziggy Stardust—I think we’ll let this one go. Happy birthday!

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E! Developing a Scripted Art Gallery Show

by Paddy Johnson on December 18, 2012

Work of Art producers may have found many art worlders to be unwilling participants in their doomed reality shows, but Hollywood hasn’t given up on us yet. E! has now announced it will launch an hour long scripted show called Gallerina, according Hollywood Deadline. The show will center on a young woman who seeks to rise to the top of Bettencourt Gallery in LA, a prestigious new gallery at the center of the art world.

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art Stays in D.C., Faces New Challenges

by Corinna Kirsch on December 12, 2012

Ending months of speculation, Washington D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art will not put up a “For Sale” sign. On Monday, the Museum announced it would remain in its historic 19th century home. That sends a nail through the coffin of a number of dramatic possibilities—moving to the Virginia suburbs had been tabled—raised in the name of salvaging the museum’s museum’s foundering finances. Nobody liked the idea. The Attorney General didn’t like it, preservationists didn’t like it, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design didn’t either.

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